America's First Thanksgiving

Uses historical reenactments to trace the development of the "giving-of-thanks" tradition in early Virginia which culminated in the first Thanksgiving service in America on the banks of the James River Settlement (now Berkeley Plantation) on December 4, 1619.

Credits

Direction, Editing, Sound
Richard B. Raynor
Script
Fred Frechette
Photography
J. Sol Wrenn, Jr.
Narrator
Fred Hazeltine.
Complete catalog record
Traces the development of the 'GIVING-OF-THANKS' tradition in early Virginia. Shows a re-enactment of the first Thanksgiving service, December 4, 1619, on the banks of James River.

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, creator, format, sound, genre, catalog record
  2. Representative University Produced Films 1964-1967 (Journal of the University Film Producers Association, Vol.19 No.3/4, 1967) — title, year, creator, length, color, description, credits
  3. 16mm Filmography editors — video